Murray Wood: Who's hot... and who's not
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The year in money: notable personal finance changes for 2025
TORONTO - There's been a lot to keep up with this year, so it's easy to have missed new developments on the personal finance front even if they might mean more money in your pocket. To help stay up to...
Dec 11, 2025 The Canada Revenue Agency sign outside the National Headquarters at the Connaught Building in Ottawa is seen on Monday, March 1, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
CRA aiming to hire 1,700 call centre staff ahead of busy tax season
OTTAWA - The Canada Revenue Agency is looking to hire or rehire about 1,700 call centre workers over the next few months to manage an influx of calls during the upcoming tax season. Melanie Serjak, an...
Dec 11, 2025 The Connaught Building which houses the Canadian Revenue Agency, is pictured as a walker makes their way through Major's Hill Park in Ottawa on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Trump's handling of the economy is at its lowest point in AP-NORC polling
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump's approval on the economy and immigration have fallen substantially since March, according to a new AP-NORC poll, the latest indication that two signature issu...
Dec 11, 2025
House of Commons rises for six-week holiday break
OTTAWA - The House of Commons has started its winter break - without the government's lengthy budget implementation bill becoming law. House leader Steven MacKinnon told reporters outside the House of...
Dec 11, 2025
Eby promises business leaders to 'go to the wall' to protect private property
VANCOUVER - British Columbia Premier David Eby reassured business leaders at a BC Chamber of Commerce gathering in Vancouver about two recent First Nations court decisions, saying he would "go to the ...
Dec 10, 2025
House passes defense bill to raise troop pay and overhaul weapons purchases
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House voted to pass a sweeping defense policy bill Wednesday that authorizes $900 billion in military programs, including a pay raise for troops and an overhaul of how the Depart...
Dec 10, 2025
Flooding severs B.C.'s Lower Mainland from Interior, as cross-border flows rival 2021
VANCOUVER - Flooding and rock slides have cut off British Columbia's Lower Mainland from the Interior as a series of atmospheric river weather systems drench the province, with emergency officials say...
Dec 10, 2025
Report raises concerns about human rights of N.S. female migrant workers
HALIFAX - A new report says Nova Scotia is failing to adequately protect female migrant workers employed on farms and seafood plants in the province. The report, published by the Centre for Migrant Wo...
Dec 10, 2025
Former chief coroner describes years of calls for changes to help toxic drug crisis
VANCOUVER - The former chief coroner for British Columbia says the provincial government didn't seem influenced by evidence or expert advice on how to prevent overdoses after it ignored multiple recom...
Dec 10, 2025
Ontario Liberals push province to sell off stored U.S. booze for charity
TORONTO - Ontario's Liberals are pushing Doug Ford's government to sell the province's stockpile of U.S. booze that is sitting in storage. Liberal parliamentary Leader John Fraser says Ford should tel...
Dec 10, 2025
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Sarah Mills: Floor crossing should be a choice between sitting as an independent or running in a byelection
Sarah Mills says floor crossing from any party in the House of Commons just one year into a mandate shouldn't be allowed...
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